Fun Facts About the Name Keagan
- More than 10 thousand babies named Keagan: U.S. records list 10,536 babies given the name Keagan from 1880 through 2025. Of these, 1,757 girls received the name Keagan - about 1 girl for every 5 boys.
What Does the Name Keagan Mean?
Keagan is a spelling of the Irish-derived name Keegan, which comes from the Irish surname Mac Aodhagáin, meaning "son of Aodhagán." Aodhagán is a diminutive of the early Irish personal name Aodh (also written Áed), a word meaning "fire." The literal sense of the surname is therefore "son of the little fire" or "descendant of Aodhagán."
Aodh itself was anglicized as Hugh, and the same root produced the English surnames and given names Keegan, Mac Keegan, Egan, and Mac Egan. Dictionary glosses that give the meaning as "little fire" and those that give "son of Aodhagán" are not competing origins; the first is the element meaning of Aodhagán, and the second describes the patronymic form the name actually takes.
Keagan Name History & Origins
The name entered English through the Irish surname Mac Aodhagáin. In Gaelic Ireland that family were hereditary brehons - practitioners and keepers of Irish law - and also poets, and their surname was anglicized in several ways depending on region and scribe, including Keegan, Mac Keegan, Mac Egan, and Egan.
The personal name Aodh behind it appears in medieval Irish records as Áed or Aedh and was borne by a number of early Irish kings and saints, which helped fix its anglicized form as Hugh. Keegan was established as a surname in Ireland and later in Britain and North America before it began to be used as a first name.
Keagan is a variant spelling rather than a separate origin: it renders the same pronunciation of the same Irish surname. Its use as a given name belongs to the broader modern practice in English-speaking countries of taking Irish surnames as first names, and the Keagan spelling is the less common of the two.
How Popular is the Name Keagan?
Keagan recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2008. Its best rank was #489 in 2008.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #4,703 | 29 | 0.0018% |
| 2024 | #4,067 | 36 | 0.0022% |
| 2023 | #4,692 | 29 | 0.0018% |
| 2022 | #4,848 | 28 | 0.0017% |
| 2021 | #3,706 | 41 | 0.0025% |
| 2020 | #3,872 | 37 | 0.0023% |
| 2019 | #2,906 | 57 | 0.0034% |
| 2018 | #3,225 | 50 | 0.0029% |
| 2017 | #3,593 | 43 | 0.0025% |
| 2016 | #2,923 | 58 | 0.0033% |
| 2015 | #2,573 | 70 | 0.0039% |
| 2014 | #2,489 | 73 | 0.0041% |
| 2013 | #2,318 | 80 | 0.0046% |
| 2012 | #2,437 | 76 | 0.0043% |
| 2011 | #2,572 | 70 | 0.0040% |
| 2010 | #2,281 | 84 | 0.0047% |
| 2009 | #2,109 | 96 | 0.0052% |
| 2008 | #2,147 | 94 | 0.0050% |
| 2007 | #1,979 | 104 | 0.0054% |
| 2006 | #2,998 | 57 | 0.0030% |
| 2005 | #3,296 | 47 | 0.0025% |
| 2004 | #3,244 | 47 | 0.0026% |
| 2003 | #3,695 | 38 | 0.0021% |
| 2002 | #3,119 | 46 | 0.0026% |
| 2001 | #2,897 | 50 | 0.0028% |
| 2000 | #2,617 | 57 | 0.0031% |
| 1999 | #3,282 | 39 | 0.0022% |
| 1998 | #4,557 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 1997 | #4,921 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 1996 | #3,393 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 1995 | #5,117 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 1994 | #5,132 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 1993 | #5,325 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1992 | #11,053 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1991 | #7,171 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1990 | #7,574 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1989 | #11,523 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1988 | #9,761 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1987 | #7,666 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1986 | #8,992 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1984 | #8,602 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1983 | #9,573 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1982 | #7,158 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1980 | #11,149 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,614 | 105 | 0.0061% |
| 2024 | #1,620 | 105 | 0.0061% |
| 2023 | #1,655 | 104 | 0.0061% |
| 2022 | #1,431 | 128 | 0.0073% |
| 2021 | #1,485 | 121 | 0.0069% |
| 2020 | #1,154 | 168 | 0.0097% |
| 2019 | #1,108 | 178 | 0.0099% |
| 2018 | #919 | 234 | 0.0129% |
| 2017 | #870 | 249 | 0.0135% |
| 2016 | #869 | 258 | 0.0136% |
| 2015 | #793 | 294 | 0.0153% |
| 2014 | #742 | 321 | 0.0167% |
| 2013 | #700 | 341 | 0.0180% |
| 2012 | #585 | 436 | 0.0230% |
| 2011 | #568 | 440 | 0.0232% |
| 2010 | #526 | 492 | 0.0256% |
| 2009 | #515 | 522 | 0.0263% |
| 2008 | #489 | 564 | 0.0276% |
| 2007 | #524 | 493 | 0.0238% |
| 2006 | #620 | 383 | 0.0186% |
| 2005 | #658 | 327 | 0.0164% |
| 2004 | #693 | 286 | 0.0144% |
| 2003 | #636 | 323 | 0.0164% |
| 2002 | #726 | 245 | 0.0126% |
| 2001 | #702 | 255 | 0.0131% |
| 2000 | #731 | 235 | 0.0120% |
| 1999 | #822 | 186 | 0.0097% |
| 1998 | #951 | 147 | 0.0077% |
| 1997 | #1,034 | 124 | 0.0066% |
| 1996 | #991 | 126 | 0.0067% |
| 1995 | #1,129 | 103 | 0.0054% |
| 1994 | #1,251 | 87 | 0.0045% |
| 1993 | #1,351 | 72 | 0.0037% |
| 1992 | #1,297 | 76 | 0.0038% |
| 1991 | #1,636 | 51 | 0.0025% |
| 1990 | #1,860 | 42 | 0.0020% |
| 1989 | #1,972 | 37 | 0.0018% |
| 1988 | #2,333 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 1987 | #3,434 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 1986 | #3,207 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1985 | #3,696 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1984 | #4,778 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1983 | #5,207 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1982 | #6,875 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1981 | #4,343 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1980 | #4,323 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1979 | #4,236 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1977 | #4,870 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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